Ukraine’s top general says his forces now control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory • FRANCE 24

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze brings us the latest from Ukraine’s border region of Sumy.
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28 comments

  5. Now they know and feel how's the situation when you are invaded. What goes around comes around. Putin is only dependent in his nuke and bunkers with his family hiding securely. Poor Russian soldiers and volunteers risking their life for the communist mentality of Putin.

  7. Ukraine suiciding its already critically low manpower for nothing. None of those armored vehicles are coming back from Kursk. All Ukraine did was violated promises to western allies that it would only stay in a defensive stance, and not enter Russian territory. Idiots in Ukrainian military and Zelensky provoking Russian defense allies and pushing closer to WW3.

  11. Kiev and the coca lord Zelensky have ruined their futures.They trusted the yanks and blojo.The money thats been made by some is sickening.But hey,thats what its all about.

  16. Going crazy over NATO's incursion is viewed as a negotiation bargaining chip.

    It is too early to leap.
    On western media, both naive and ecstatic.

    Perhaps the best trained soldiers in Germany are in action.

  17. Zelensky is GOAT order McDonald's and orange juice trading with Russia Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, Zaporizhian, Kherson.. .😂😂😂😂

    Russia record losing 0-6 is choke!

    Russia even can't captured Capital Kyiv 3 days…

    Russia even cannot win in Ukraine almost 3 years..

    Ukraine record 6-0 is GOAT!

    Kyiv win has the right to defend itself by Russia is fails 3 days..

    Ukraine win defensed war against Russia is fails almost 3 years..

  20. Look. The nerds in NATO needs to be very careful. It will put entire Europe in serious trouble. As per reports Nato stole the money from Russia's depo accounts and gave it to Ukraine. So we will surely see the consequences if nato does not correct itself, period.

  21. Blah blah blah more lies from the Ukrainians, to continue receiving easy money from the European Union, or rather, money that comes out of the pockets of the European taxpayer who is suffering from an inflation crisis.

  26. I'm just laughing at what this comment page will look like a week from now. I can predict it with 99% certainty, but YouTube will just delete it so why bother…" I'll come back on 8/20/24. 😂

  28. A brief assessment re. Ukraine's recent advance into Russia.

    If one uses the principle of 'Occam's Razor', (to whit; "Eliminate the impossible, and whatever remains, however IMPROBABLE, must be the truth .."), this distils to the following rather sobering conclusion.

    (1) The Ukrainian army is being attrited to defeat.

    (2) It is being supplied with just enough support to keep the Russians at bay, (or perhaps, not even that.)

    (3) As assessed by many, it cannot afford to fight in the way that it is on another front .. yet it is.

    WHY ?

    (4) The Ukraine gave up the nuclear arms with which it would have been able to defend itself for Western 'concrete' assurances that NATO would make it unnecessary, ever, for them to retain them, (as the protection that NATO would offer would forever negate their need for them.)

    (5) The West 'welched' on those assurances; The Ukraine now can only alter the outcome of this war by use of nuclear weapons, (which, as stated, they no longer have.)

    However, Russia, their enemy, does. How, therefore, might those be used to force a complete victory .. for the Ukraine ?

    How, indeed, might one's ENEMY'S nuclear arms be used to 'persuade' one's allies not to renege on their 'assurances' ?

    (6) One of Russia's long-term stated conditions for THEIR definite use of THEIR nuclear weapons is .. 'To defend against an existential threat to their own country, should one occur.'

    At this moment, the Ukraine has decent western weapons, (ammunition, sophisticated cruise and ballistic missiles, Bradleys, U.S, U.K., & German MBT's and now fighter jets), with which it has equipped it's most experienced and motivated army groups; therefore for a very short 'window', (before, possibly, Trump is elected U.S. president, cuts U.S assistance and attempts to 'discourage' that from others ..), supplies of these will continue.

    THEREFORE, it could be argued that ..

    Before the possible election of an 'unhelpful' U.S. president ..

    And before the Slavic Winter closes the area of the world in which this conflict is being fought ..

    They are thus, (to use a, possibly appropriate gambling term), ', Throwing ALL THAT THEY HAVE REMAINING into one final 'pot'; in my opinion, (pertinent metrics considered), a logically justified 'bet' on this final 'hand.'

    (7) The Ukraine really is attempting to actually 'take' Moscow.. (as seemed to be the .. possibly welcomed ?? .. intention of 'PUTIN's CHEF' in 2023 before he changed his mind ..), and / or St.Petersburg, the two Russian cities who's over-privileged residents' panicked 'cavils' just might carry weight .. It's not a bluff; The Ukraine IS attempting to do this .. in consideration of circumstances both extant and impending, they MUST; .. they have no choice, as if they are not victorious with extreme dispatch, (with Trump's possible election 'bearing down' ..), .. THE UKRAINE, as a country, may, in short, simply cease to exist, (and they therefore will not, indeed CANNOT call a halt TO this advance.)

    BECAUSE .. (and these, you will understand, are just my 'militarily – uneducated' musings, so please tolerate my 'civilian naivety' ..)

    They have, discretely, quietly but unequivocally 'advised' us, their allies, that this is their absolute intention, that no pressure from their allies will deter them, and have posited that at some juncture, as their forces advance, Russia may HAVE TO attack the Ukraine, in retaliation, with nuclear weapons.

    And sufficient radioactive fallout, (and possibly even the occasional 'stray' nuclear-armed missile, 'wandering' off course due to 'interference' to it's targeting systems by 'persons unknown' ..), will drift to those neighbouring Slavic countries, (perchance .. an extremely well-armed & increasingly influential POLAND, already a 'recipient' of a 'renegade' rocket earlier in this war ..), who ARE members of NATO, making it necessary for them to invoke 'Article-5.'

    So, full nuclear war.

    UNLESS .. the West get's it's collective act together, (perhaps even, let's say .. enforcing a total 'no-fly zone' to anything, anywhere, even LOOKING 'aggressively in the general direction of The Ukraine and, possibly, also even 'putting the boots of allied forces onto Ukrainian ground' ..), and forces a complete WIN, in extremely short order, for the Ukraine, (i.e., return of the Crimea, the Donbas, et al.)

    A win IN the Ukraine with Conventional weapons.

    So, it's .. 'WE win, or EVERYONE loses' .. an 'END GAME' strategy from the Ukraine.

    The Ukraine's 'endgame' will succeed; they will win.

    However, Russia, defeated, will be like a frustrated child, stamping it's foot so ..

    If my assessment is even close to accuracy .. Good Luck !

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